The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-26 00:00:00

li/fR. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS EVERY EVENING, at Eight. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, COVENT-GARDEN. LAST WEEK BUT ONE. FIRST APPEARANCE OF SIG. BOTTESINI. T iTlr.3 EVENING (hlonday), the fo!lowing; Artistes will appear --Vocalists : Mdlle. C. Patti and Mr. Levai • Thomas. strumen. alists : Mdlle. Krebs ; Mr. Levy, Mr. La zarus, Mr. Mr. D. Harmer , and'Sig nor Pottesini (his first app earan eat these Concerts). Orchestra and Bands of the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards (151 performers) Sec nd night of the new Burlesque Quadrille, " Paul-y-Toole-technlc." Operatic Se' ections, "La Favorite," " Est," &c. Cond. ctor- Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and AmpShilltnghitheere, One ; Dress Circle, 25. Ed. ; Private Boxes, £1 Is. and les. 6d. TO-MORROW (Tuesday,. a Selection from the WORKS of the GREAT ITALIAN MASTERS. On Thurs , ..lay next, a C t ASSICAL NIGHT. On Friday next, a HARP SELECTION. TriEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE.— Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. R. Roxby, Belmore ; Miss llndspeth. After which, the First Part of Shakespere's Play of HEN 'TIE FOURTH. Mr Phelps; Messrs Creswick, Walwr Lac!, R. Itoxby, G. Belmore, 11. Marston, &c. ; Miss Helen Howard, Miss Arabella Smyth, and Mrs. C. Melvi le. To conclude with the Farce of BEAUTY OR THE BEAST. 31r. G. Belmore and Miss Helen Howard. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.— Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. After which, at half-past 7, O'Keefe's revived Comic Opera of THE CASTLE OF ANDALUSIA. Messrs. Weiss, Buckstone, Chippendale, Compton, Rogers, Farren, Matthi -5011, ; Mesdames Weiss, Keeley, GWAG GL riffith, So. ES. Horatio To be followed by FRIEN D Waggles (his original character), Mr. Compton. Concluding with A KISS IN THE at DARK. T ommence 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. Alter which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining-, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her, D. Marray, J. Nelson, ForreAcr. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss F.tnny Gwynne. E W THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI - Proprietor and ,Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Will OPEN for the WINTER SEASON on MONDAY, Oct. 3, with great and attractive novelty. First appearance of Mr. JOHN COLLINS, who has obtained such celebrity in America as an Irish Vocalist and representation of Irish Character, for whom will be produced the celebrated Comic Drama of THE IRISH AM BAS -ADOR and the screaming Irish Farce of TEDDY THE TILER. MONDAY, Oct. 3, and duri❑g the week, the performance will commence with the celebrated comics Drama of GOOD FoR NOTHING. Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Billington, and Mrs. Alfred Mellon (Miss Woolgar). After which will be produced, for the first time at this theatre, the popular comic Drama of THE IRISH AMBAS SADOR. Sir Patrick O'i'lenipo kN$ :th songs', Mr. John Collins, support .d by Messrs. Billington, Stephenson; Miss dienrie to simms and Mrs. Billington. With the screaming•lrish Farce of TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy (with songs), Mr. John Collins. Commence at 7. - - In rehearsal, for immediate production, a new and original Drama, in three acts, in which will be introduced some mar vellous effects invented and patented by Mr. 11. N. King . Various other novelties are in preparation. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMINENT TALENT' AND COMEDY. Eat 6 Nights of the Burlesque. This popular Theatre is now Open for the Winter Season. rills EVENING,:(for the 13th time) Mr. Arthur Sketchly's raighly-successful and original Comedy of HOW WILL THEY GET OUT OF IT. After which, F. C. Burnand's Laughable Travestie of FAUST AND MAR3-UEItITE. To conclude witu UNDER. THE ROSE. Those cele brated artists Mr. and Mrs. Char es Mathews are re-engaged. Mrs. Stirling, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews, Mr. F. Robin son, Mr. Ashley, Mr. J. Clark, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. John-i stone, Mr. H. Montague, Miss Cotterel , Miss Fanny Joseph Miss Patti Josephs, &c. &c. Scenic Artists, Mr. Gates and his pupil. Acting Manager, Mr. J. Kinloch. Musical Con ductor, Mr. Wallenstiene. Stage Director, Mr. F. Webster. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. Tlll9 EVENING, SHORT AND SWEET. Messrs. Por sche and James; Mesdames Carson and Johnstone._ After which, the great Burlesque, THE MILLER AND MS MEN. Messrs. Fenton, James, and Thorne; Mesdames Swanborou,gh, Simpson, Johnstone, Hughes , and Carson. To conclude with WHERE'S YOUR WIFE? Mr. Bel ford. C O UNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAY, of Reqent-street, have now In stock a variety of WASHING SILK. DREISES, suitatle for the country and seaside, and at the c:earing-out price of only Li Ils. ed. the dress. JAY'S, 247, 249, and 251, Regent-street. BLACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw material has already r'sen 15 per cent., and it will soon Teach a far greater per-tentage. Messrs. JAY, therefore, invite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally 13,: more Costly 33 the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 219, and 251, Reg,ent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 238. per ton. I Double.. 208. per ton. 'fop "25. „ De , p Kell screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke lss. per chlldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, sole I.gent. al HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," 1. Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, pun be had Every Evening of R. GL MNII4I, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN ' supplied, as soon as published every Evening by HENRY BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 24, Old Cavendish street, W. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAL—Morning,' 10h. 69m.—Afternoon, 11h. 31m. ra4LOßßOW...Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. 5h2. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1864. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. al"-- , - LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 1864. Sir J. P. WILDE's address at York was an ad. mirable one, and may with great advantage be studied by all those who seek to inform themselves concerning the nature of the law. He grappled with the difficult subject in a manner that showed him to be a complete master of it, and that must have proved most edifying to his hearers', and no less may it serve to inform many others relative to a question of vast social importance. Sir J. WILDE truly stated that we must bear in mind that though many reforms have been already wrought in the method of applying the law, "the body of the law itself" must be now looked to. Can we boast, he asks, that we are living under a system that is not at all in unison with the requirements of the age, or suited to the intelligence and advance of the day ? Alas, the answer, it is only too plain to all, we are burdened with a code that oppresses and weighs us down, and yet that boasts of so many able and eloquent defenders that it seems treason to attempt its alteration. Men of Sir J. WILDE'S position are great benefactors to the cause in thus coming forward in so prompt and outspoken a man ner, and explaining the errors in which we lie and the mistakes that are made in the carrying out of our vaunted codes of law. How true is this remark that " justice should be paramount and method sub ordinate." Is it not proverbially the contrary in practice, is not a method, manner, and form always suffered to prevail, to the detriment of our rights, interests, and privileges? Then the forms, says the learned speaker, should be as few as possible, lest "guides and supports" into they pass from bei n g "fetters and trammels." Is not this the fac simile of the workings of our legal affairs ? Are they not veritable breeds which cripple, confine, and circum vent all freedom of action and genuineness of thought. When it is asked to what extent the c mnmon law of this country " 0311 lay claim to sim : Vicity, clearness, c er t a i n ty, and unerring justice, 'we must answer directly and distinctly in the nega tive, so far as regards many points. Sir J. %VILDE very forcibly depicted the reason of much of this inadesoaa y arid incompleteness, by explaining that sufficient changes had not been made in these 1 s, WS j they we re passEd for the m os t par t i n the time of the Pl antagenets, and, therefore, it is not to ho wondered at that they fall so far short of the necessities and exigencies of our present ogee The need which existed ss a , emphatically shadowed forth by the learned speak er. H e said that " the • gradual development which has turned a handful of military adventurers and a Population of serfs into the wealthiest commercial community of the world, has surely called for the destruction of as much. as was old and useless as the creation of what was new and requisite." It seems very strange, certainly, that none of our advanced statesmen should have had sufficient foresight and intelligence to enable them to remedy this deficiency, and meet the requirements of their generation with skill and spirit. Instead of this, where do we find more com plaints made, and hear of more dissatisfaction ex pressed, than in the workings of the law. Men who willingly obey the other regulations of their time, instinctively turn with annoyance, dread, or irritation to the vtxed end harassing requi sitions of common law and its mystifying procedure. Resting everything upon precedent has been a fatal error and a ruinous course in our judicature ; as Sir J. WILDE has adroitly put it. the life, body, and spirit of the feudal system was gone, " but the armoury of its weapons and defences is still cherished in our halls of justice." Thus if an immediate analogy was not found, a different one was taken, and bent and distorted till it served the turn and fulfilled the sacred duty of establishing a pre cedent. What can be said too strongly or severely against this Procrustean form of making the laws of one time to suit another, when all else has changed over which time and manners can exercise control and alter in form and style. What we seem cape. cially to want has been described by Sir J. WILDE in a very concise form : it is a resume of the actual working of special laws for particular purposes. He hopes that he is not too sanguine in expecting within the bounds of labour and time this idea may be found capable of realisation, and that therefrom the most beneficial results may be experienced. " For the student and the general public the vast area covered by the law would present a district set out in order instead of a tangled thicket." It would be well if this suggestion could be carried out, for there is no doubt that there is great truth in it, and that its practice would conduce to the welfare of all concerned. The concluding passages of Sir J. WILDE's discourse are particularly deserving of notice, and contain some sterling truths that can not be too earnestly studied nor too deeply dwelt upon. It is a proof of his conviction of the opinions which he expresses that he thus steps out of the beaten track to show us the errors of his pro fession, instead of doing what so many persist ia—namely, upholding its fallacies, and through thick and thin clinging to all the prejudices and malpractices of the affair, totally ignoring the con sequences which such a course entails on others. Let those who are sceptical as to the necessity of Reform in. the law, and are apt to sneer at what amAtetir3,:Or "novices` nay put forward, regard the expressed opinion of one who surely is well quali fied to judge of the merits and demerits of the ques tion. He says that "a severe . exactitude in the application of a highly technical system has ever been the foremost blemish of English jurispru dence." How true is this declaration hero put forth that "the spring and root of all our law expenses have been laid in public opinion." What, then, should prevent that solitary change and desirable alteration taking place which are so ardently de sired by many, and of such vital consequence to the best interests of the community, Sir j. WILDE has done his part freely, folly, and fairly—he has extenuated nothing, and set down naught in ma lice. It remains for others to do their part also, to treasure up his precepts and ponder well upon the principles which should inform and animate the laws of this great country. We live in a progress eive age, and yet the laws seem to stand still. It is difficult to find any old-established institution that has not to bend to custom, and conform to the sweeping doctrine of change ; and yet there are those who would desire and demand of us to leave all masters connected with the law in tau quo rather than introduce most needful innova tions, and the adaptation of special require ments. Sir J. WILDE remarked that legal education engenders great evil, that of "prizing above their worth, and precision, and refinement.' This has grown with the growth and strengthened with the strength of the law, and many have suf fered in consequence of its almost universal adoption and the firm hold it has taken on the minds of the profession. What can be truer than this definition of things as they at present exist. " The fear of going too far ever present, the fear of not teaching justice faintly felt, positive injustice worked in the present to avoid possible injustice in the future, rights so bound in safeguards lest they become wrongs that they cease to be worth asserting—a structure in which form ever overlays substance, and a contest in which justice is apt to sink under the weight of her own armour, while precedent, casting its shadow both ways, binds the present by the errors of the past, and narrows it by the poaaie bilities of the future. Such are the fruits which a spirit of over-jealous caution and exactitude is cal culated to bear." This is a sketch drawn by a master-hand, which admirably displays the anoma lous state at which we have arrived. Stretched on the rack of a too easy chair, as it were, in the en tanglements of over-wise definitions Sir J. WILDE counsels those who would aid the cause of Law Reform to become animated with the requisite boldness. This is the right sort of advice to give, for the task is a burdensome one, and a faint heart will never win the day nor carry off the coveted prize. The country will have cause to rejoice at the advent of the time, when many brave spirits will arise to carry out the long-desired reformation that our law requires, and apply themselves with might and main to the noble endeavour according to the axioms here set forth. " I mean that boldness which is born of the firm conviction, that whatever is contrary to commonsense and national justice, ought also to be contrary to law—the boldness which fears not to depart from the past to render homage to the present, which acknowledges that the law is made for man, and not man for the law; a s i n m d p w l i h o c t y h m w i a t r h c h s e o s m straight t t s o t i o t s t o h b o j e p c e t , r f preferr ing t aims, but ra re l y reac h es. " which complexity The trade and finance of the British Empire is a subject sufficiently large to tax the powers even of so able and accomplished a speaker as Mr LAING to compress its salient points into the compass of a singlet lecture. Yet the ex-Financial Minister of India was sufficiently familiar with his subject to accomplish his task without difficulty, and to en lighten the young men of Wick on the doctrines of political economy, without encumbering his dia. course with useless details or perplexing his hearers with abstruse theories. Mr LAING having been in. vited by the Young Men's Association at Wick to deliver a lecture, wisely selected a topic which espe cially concerns all who are about to enter upon a commercial life, and who, as Mr LAING reminded them, may hereafter be called upon to play their part n the tea plantations of India, the mercantile houses of China or Japan, or the gold diggings and sheep-runs of the Australasian colonies. His ad dress was clear, sensible, and highly instructive, always supposing that his hearers did not accept his political opinions as equally uncontrovertible with his statistic. Mr LAING is a man of unques tioned ability and great experience. His capacity as a financier has been proved by his services to India, and it is not surprising that he should dwell B e a r t e ie d itt p o r t o i s t zts H o e f that country with con : ; I d e t rht the altered e l t ells no II At he is not, and has never been, an ardent partisan ; but we must not suppose that the absence of party spirit, however desirable, necessarily renders the sound ness of a man's judgment unimpeachable. Indeed in some cases the coolness of temperament and re flective disposition which keeps him apart from the exeitement of the political arena, prevents him from accurately estimating the intensity of a na tional sentiment. For some reason or other Mr LAING has altogether miscalculated the public feel ing with regard to the Danish question. In the first place, he entirely misstated the question at issue, which was not whether we were "to rush into a great war with 45 millions of Germans to decide whether Danish or German should be taught in the grammar schools of Schleswig," but whether the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the word should stand timely aside while two strong States dismembered a weak one without the shadow of a just pretence. The reductto ad absurdum is always easy, and we might as well say we would not go to war to stop French from being substituted for English in the grammar schools of Ireland, if the question of language and of nationality were nothing more than an empty word. It is easy for a speaker to declare that a nation should only appeal to the sword in cases clearly affecting its honour, good faith, or practical interest, but unless the in• habitants of Wick are very far behind the rest of their compatriots in intelligence and political know ledge, they have long since been convinced that no war was necessary, but that the simple announce ment that the passage of the Eider would be re garded by Great Britain as a cases belle would have preserved the Danish dominions intact without a shot being fired. An English fleet cruising in the Baltic, another in the Adriatic, and a Union Jack hoisted on the Dannewerke would have promptly and peaceably settled questions whose final solo don may possibly be left to another generation. Such a course far from costing life would have spared the bloodshed and misery now inflicted by the war, and would have probably averted those European con vulsions to which the greed of Prussia will infallibly give rise. But it is something new for our politi cians to stand in such wholesome awe of these for midable millions of Germans, and we should imagine the Vaterland itself was rather astonished at the sudden timidity of Englishmen. It would, in truth, seem as if that great prosperity of which Mr LAING gave so striking a picture had produced nationally the same effect that it often does individually, and had narrowed the mind, hardened the heart, and shaken the nerves of stout JOHN BULL. He has certainly no ground for financial uneasiness, being, as Mr LAING reminded him, about the only solvent one among his European fellows, while the New World is rapidly doing its best to eclipse the Old in the extent of its embarrassments by incurring a national debt already reckoned by hundreds of mil lions without the smallest prospect of being able to pay the interest. France, says Mr LAING, has in ten years added a hundred and fifty millions to her debt. Austria and Italy bombard each other with budgets showing annual deficits of six or eight millions; while Russia is always borrowing, and the financial condition of Spain and Turkey is something proverbial. Meanwhile, our statistics show a very different result, and although our annual expenditure is something between bo and 70 millions, we have a yearly surplus which enables us to reduce taxation. "In the four years between 1860 and 1864," says Mr LAING, " the taxpayers were relieved of taxation to the amount of £9,425,000, and yet the revenue of 1864 remains almost the same as it was in 1860." A great part of the national prosperity indicated by these facts is doubtless due, as Mr LAING justly attributed it, to the diffusion of the principles of free trade, So rapid has been the rate of increase in our imports and exports that the speaker was puzzled to bring it fairly within the grasp of his hearers, justly re marking that the figures were like those of astro nomical distances, and almost escaped us by their magnitude. Twenty years ago, when Sir ROBERT PEEL was just inaugurating the practical applicae Lion of free-trade principles, the foreign trade of Great Britain and Ireland was valued at 150 mil lions per annum. The imports and exports for 1863 were estimated at no less than 444 millions, and the increase of the year 1863 over 1862 amounted to £53,000,000, so that the rate of increase is rapidly augmenting. Of this " the largest commerce the world ever saw," Mr. LAING gave some interesting details, entering very fully into the principal items of our trade and commerce, and bringing some very important facts under the notice of his hearers. One of these which may furnish an additional ar gument against the adoption of Mr. GOLDWIN SMITH'S anti-colonial theories, is that the natural tendency of colonial trade is always towards the mother country, and that " a given population, whether it be of British origin as in Australia or Canada, or of foreign race as in India or Ceylon, will always furnish a larger trade per head with Great Britain, if they form part of the British Empire, than if, as in the United States or in China, they are subjects of a foreign government." He illustrated this by citing from statistics, substane tiating his theory and ranging from British India, our largest customer, giving us fifty millions of inee ports and taking twenty millions of exports, down to the little island of Mauritius, which under British government gives two millions and takes half-a million annually, sums altogether disproportionate to its size and importance. Our trade with Fran ce has increased immensely of late years, while that with America has of course sensibly diminished, though happily without affecting the general pros perity of the .country. The high rate of interest Mr. LAING attributes solely to the activity of trade and the high rate of profits, waving the question Rs to the want of sympathy between our expanding trade and our non-expanding currency. It is a pity that a gentleman who so clearly appreciates the value and beneficial results of Free Trade, should not see that the great want of our commercial life is its extension to the money market. One would think that Mr, LAING'S own quick financial intel ligence might show him at a glance the disproportion between a trade increasing at the rate of fifty mil lions a year and the narrow limits of our currency. Most assuredly the Bank Act of 1814 wee never adapted for a growing commerce, and it is in spite of it, not_by its aid, that our mercantile interests have flourished. But despite some questionable theories Mr. LAING'S address was well worthy of his reputation, end the Wick Association may thank him for a clear, succinct, and admirable summary of the vast dealings of British commerce. DEATH OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.—lntelli gence has been received at Bath (of which city he was for many years a resident) of the death of Walter Savage Landor at Florence on the 17th inst. ➢lr Landor wes born on the 30th of January, 1775, and had obtained cclebri.y as a scholar and poet before the end or last century. His " Imaginary Conversations" have r( ndered his name fami liar as an accomplished litterateur. - • • FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN SPEICE.—The funeral of Captain Speke took place at the village of Dowlish-Wake, two miles from Ilmineter, on Friday afternoon. The body was removed from the residence of the Rev. B. Speke, brother of the deceased, at 3 o'clock, and was followed to the grave by a long proc3ssion of mourners, clergy, and friends of the family. Amongst others present were Sir R. Murchison, Dr Livingstone, and Captain Grant. The latter carried a wreath of laurel leaves and flowers, which be placed upon the coffin as it was bcincs lowered into the vault. The service was performed by the Rey, Prebendary Coles. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 24.—The market, in the absence of anything like business, remains stationary: Threes, for the Account, are unvaried at 65fr. 95c., and Mobilier only shows a slight improvement, being now at 1,017 fr. 50c. Railway Market dull, but with prices up to the present time pretty well maintained. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 92 70 Do. end month ~ 3 per Cents Do. end month 65 90 Credit Mobilier 1015 Do. end month 1016 25 Bank Shares — Credit Foncier l2OO Roman Italian LOan 67 60 Do, end month 67 65 Ditto Threes — New Mexican. Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — &me Debt Deferred BA.IL WAYS. Orleans 0000000 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Wester a Eastern Sardinian Austrian ...... Lombard ... North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Cash. Account. 890 891 25 983 75 921 25 .. 923 75 628 75 .. 631 25 620 500 502 50 318 75 - - 452 53 .. 455 538 75 .. 537 50 400 - .. 400 - 487 50 .. 488 75 205 - .. 205 - AMERICA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The objects that are causing most interest or at least excitement here and in the Northern States generally, are— _ The Chicago Convention, the Surrender of the Forts, and the operation of the Fleet at Mobile Harbour, and last, not least, the capture or evacu• ation of Atlanta. Assuming, on the strength of Mr. Stanton's offi cial but disjointed despatches, that the Federal troops really occapy Atlanta, it makes a very con. eiderable practical difference whether the place was " captured," or, as many think, deliberately evacu ated by the Confederates ; because, if the latter be the case, it implies the correctness of the statement put forward some time since that the Government works, material, &c., had been transferred "further South." If this be so, then the Federals only gain the position and bare walls. However, great have been the rejoicings in the North over the event ; and the President has issued a sort of quasi pro clamation, recommending a general thanksgiving for the Mobile harbour affair and the glorious achievements of the army under Major-General Sherman in the State of Georgia, resulting in the capture of the city of Atlanta. As it is possible before the steamer sails that some more definite account may reach New York of this capture, I shall defer any further remarks on the matter. Probably ere this letter ever reach your columns, English readers will have had opportunity to learn as much as they have any desire to know about the Chicago Convention. That these conventions and ratification meetings, and so forth, are of political importance, inasmuch as they express the senti ments for the time being of the majority of the politicians attendant on the several occasions, is a thing that nobody will deny. But when it is also recollected that they are virtually mere demonstra tions—that they legally do not form part of the machinery, so to say, by which a President is elected, I see no reason or object for my troubling British readers, or their troubang themselves much about the Chicago convention. However, as it is generally stated that the nomi nation of Gen. and the tone of th e o th er resolutions passed, denoted a strong feeling or wish or opinion, amongst the majority of free and en lightened citizens there assembled in favour of peace—that, in short, it was a peace convention, it may be as well to see what the South thinks on the subject. I have little doubt but that the following extracts from the hichmond Examiner express the general, real, Southern sentiment. After stating that, now the issues of peace and war are not in the hands of politicians and states men, but in the hands of soldiers, and that— " Further, those Yankees who are war men to-day will be peace men in three months if their grand campaign turns out an utter failure; and those who are for peace to-day, with few exceptions, will foam for war and yell for blood within the same three months, if they see reason to believe that the Con federacy is reeling to its fall." The article con tinues : It may therefore be affirmed most categorically, and re ceived as an axiom, that the doings of the Chicago, or of the Baltimore, or of the Cleveland Convention, or of all of them put together, are of no consequence to the world. The election in November will not be governed by the elec tion of those politicians in August, but by the military situation in November ; and tha election in November itself signifies just as little as the Conventions, because the issue of war or peace must be governed, not by the wishes, policy, or protestations of the party in power, but by the situation of the invading armies at tho close of this campaign, and by the possibility or impossibility of procuring a fresh army to undertake invasion next year, which is the same thing as to say that the Yankee nation will fight us upon this argument just so long as it shall be able to fight us, and no longer. Whether under Lincoln or 11l'Clellan, in a constitutional war, or an unconstitutional, the whole quarrel between us, and every part of it, and the time of ending it and the terms of settling it—all abide the inevitable wager of battle. Therefore, while the whole of the enemy's country is hanging to-day upon the utterances of the telegraph wires —eager to know, not so much whether there is to be peace or war, as who are to have the profits and spoils of peace or war, for four years to come—the people of the Confederate States may await those revela tions, not with calmness only, but with utter indiffer ence. It matters not to us what men are to rule and to rob in that country the next four years; and as to their being for peace or for war that depends not upon them, but upon us; we shall cause them to be for either one or the other, precisely in proportion as we shall dr:ve back their armies, or bo driven by them. Yet it is not strange that there is so much curiosity here about the action of those Conventions. It is impossible to avoid looking to them for something that may serve as a kind of sign, showing what cur enemies themselves (or ono party of them) think of their chance of conquering us. To this extent their proceedings may serve as a sign, at least for the day that is passing over our heads ; hardly for to-mor row ; still less for next November ; least of all for next year. If the Peace Democrats prevail at Chicago, it will prove that the Democratic party generally thinks war played out and believes it will have better chance of coining into place on a peace than on a war platform ; yet even that peace platform could not stand up against the capture of Atlanta and Petersburg—would be swept out of sight in a moment by th e capture of Richmond. So, if the War Democrats Prevail, and all the parties contending for power advocate war until "the suppression of the rebellion," yet that could not s o t stand nd Grant's against beatent he def remnanteat of re . 1 n Shermanfa t and a n t d v h a e s reappear ancehlngt o n. The length of these quotations renders it impos sible—even if I wished so to do—to enter now into extended remarks upon the " Peace question." It appeared to me more important for your readers to know, so far as such things can be known, the Southern feeling at this mome n t on what after a ll is a practical question, than to discuss the abstract y, notions of the Chicago or other Presidential Elec. Lion Convention. But this I will sa w ith reference to the alleged peaceful tendency of this " Democratic" demon. stration, that, however loud and eloquent were the denunciations of the modus operand; of the Wash ington Government ; however cleverly the " orators" referred to the miserable effects and the unnecessary brutalities of the war; however strongly they repudiated the very idea that if their party had been in power those and such things would have occurred—notwithstandirg all that was said, and much more—l do b elieve that if, durin g the g en eprogresshad arrived v e t a t: e t h at an $ 4 great Union victory" Convention, "reliable intelli had been achieved—let us imagine, for argument sake, that the " news" was to this effect : " Glorious victory—Grant triumphant—Richmond taken—Lee's army cut in two and des+royed -17,596 rebels killed, the rest prisoners—J, ff Davis killed—the city burned with Greek fire—the Secesh women properly treated—Union loss, 4 killed and 319 wounded, &c., &e." If, in short, the " intelligence" had been of the kind commonly called "glorious to the Union cause," then I believe the "Peace Platform" would have been broken up in the most admired, or any other sort of disorder; and, as the Southern journal expresses it, those who were for peace "would, (with few exceptions) 'foam for war and yell for blood." As a matter of history this sort of "sudden change" occurred more than once during the pro gress of this war. What is there to show that any firmer peace principles exist now in the North ? WEDNESDAY, 9 A.M. The Atlanta affair, or " capture," is still—to me —" a muddle," so far as the despatches and reports as yet published. THE " LONDON REVIEW " ON COMMERCIAL PANICS.—The moment of a panic, whether in the field of battle or in the money market, is one of unreasoning fear, and works such wholesale de struction of plan and organisation for the moment, that skill and courage must stand by and let fear and confusion have their way. But these fearful moments are produced by well known causes. At Waterloo the French soldiers were promised the support of Grouchy, who, they were told, had al ready joined the French right, but they found the Prussians instead. They lost confidence in their officers and themselves at the moment when victory was hopeless, and panic converted a defeat into a rout. So also in the money market people are told this, that, and the other, which turns out to be false, they lose all confidence, and a panic is esta blished. But in both cases the panic is preceded by defeat, but by a defeat which, although of a certain measure and gravity, may be followed by better fortune next day. A defeat may be retrieved, for organsation remains, but a panic dissolvesthe body corporate, and leaves only disjecta menzbra to operate upon at some future time. In a defeat so much money, or so many men and guns, or such a position is lost, and the general or the operator retires with a dimi nished army or less moneyto make new combinations, to defend what is left, or perhaps to renew the attack in another quarter with a happier result, and with reinforcements which courage and energy may have supplied. Panics in the money-market do not arise from trading but from speculating. And there is a pretty close analogy here between war and com merce. A panic in the battlefield never arises when generals fight fairly for "who shall in a campaign. The military speculator comes forward and fights in disregard of all good rules of strategy for some thing beyond the ordinary prizes of war. Thus at Waterloo Napoleon was not defending France from invasion, but risking all for a crown ; and at Bull Run General M•Dowell fought for no military ne cessity, but, to please the newspapers and the pub lic, he embarked in a gambling enterprise of which he knew but little. In either case battle was joined for other than the pure military reason of defence from invasion, or the putting down the Confederacy of' the Southern States. Napolecn did not fight or man ceavre for the defence of France, as another general acting under a Government at Paris would have done, but for a crown—a prize for which he gambled, and for which a speedy and brilliant victory was necessary. So also General Millowell attacked the Confederates with an undis ciplined army, not because ha thought that the road to success, but because the New York mob and press imperatively demanded a fight. Any General may be defeated, but route and panics only happen to them when they turn gamblers—just as in the money market, it is not trade, not even overtrading, which produces panic, but gambling or speculation. At this moment some people apprehend a panic in the cotton market as aprobetble consequence of an early peace in America. We shall not hazard an opinion as to the occurrence of such an event further than to say that as threatened men live long, so a panic well foretold may, perhaps, fail altogether,or may not stela out all the life of even the speculators in cotton But so far as a panic or even a very serious crisis' is concerned, we do venture to fortell confidently, that although the trader .may be tried it is the speculator, not the trader, who will be ruined. The dealer in cotton and the manufacturer of cotton goods, may so far have speculated as to be found with a larger stock on hand than the necessities of his trade may require. He is to that extent a specu lator. But the dealer or manufacturer is not likely to err greatly in this way. He will, no doubt, suffer by the panic, if it comes—he will be a loser, inas much as he has been a speculator—but, if he has not sunk his character as trader or manufacturer in that of speculator, he will be like the general who is des feated, and retires from the field, but is able to show fight next day with reinforcements or in a better position. They who will be ruined will be the speculators—those who are holders of cotton for a rise, and who have besides embarked all their credit as well as their capital on holding on against ad verse prices, These men will, no doubt, by their fall damage others, perhaps drag them down with them, But speculators deal with each other. " Show me your company, and I'll tell you what you are," and "Birds of a feather flock together," are as true as anything short of Gospel. The speculator does not often rui❑ the trader. His co-speculator and the smaller people who depend on him, and have trusted to his ape pearance of wealth, are his co.sufferers. It is the same in other fields of speculation. The trader generally falls on his feet : it is the speculator who is ruined. No bank ever yet came to grief by ma ceiving deposits and discounting, even too freely, the commercial bills of its customers. The history of all banking failures is unique. A bank lends some one too much money, and when it finds this out it lends him some more, not for the sake of using the money, but to bolster up itself and its customer together. In fact, the bank begins to speculate in cotton, or in building, or in some', thing or another out of its own line, in the per= son of its customer, and they both come to grief together. If the bank had stopped when it first took alarm—oven if it had not taken the alarm as soon as it should have done, it might perhaps have been a loser, but it would have gone on. It is a consoling fact for a nation of traders that people are seldom ruined by trading. The exchange of commodities is, in the main, profitable. Even when a panic has affected trade pretty universally, and the failures of large houses are announced day by day, subsequent examination has always shown that the traders were speculators in dies guise, and have been unwisely bolstered up for years by their credit in easy times. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" oe THE PROSE OF POET CLOSE,—As the skylark, after proudly soaring heaven• wards and rapturously pouring forth its soul in song, is forced to return to the dull earth, and attend to the calls of its appetite and its domestic duties, so is the poet too often compelled to desist from scaling the steps of Parnassus, and to descend to the level of ordinary life and unromantic avocations. Ouch has been the hard cite of a minstrel whom a monarch and a minister have in vain delighted to honour. In spite of the enlightened patronage of Lord Palmerston and the King of Bonny, Mr Close has not met with the success which he expecte], and he has therefore been obliged to doff his singing robes, and to wander forth an unwilling exile from the enchanted realms of verse. At timer, indeed, the muse still whispers unbidden in his ear, and he allows himself a brief relapse into rhyme, but such an indulgence is rarely conceded. Having won the title of poet, he now hangs up his lyre on the wall till better times arrive, and devotes himself in the interval to the composi tion and the sale of prose. It is to be hoped that his " Tales and Legends of Westmoreland," the third volume of which has lately appeared, will bring him a more solid recompense than ho could have obtained had he refused to listen to the voice of prudence, and given himself up to warbling his na tive woodnotes wild. The account they contain of the life he leads is equally touching and edifying, and may supply some valuable hints to any future chronicler of the miseries of authors. Uniting in himself the functions of author and publisher, Mr Close disposes of the greater part of his works at the little railway station of Kirsby-Stephen, in West. moreland, There, clothed in " the squire's new coat," he informs us that "he walks the platform like a swell of the first water." When a train arrives, he offers his books to the passengers, who are expected to purchase-them as local produce, just as they would invest in cake at Banbury or in champagne at Epernay. If any one of distinction is among their number, Mr Close pays him special attention, and de scribes him at length in his next work. On all who patro nise him he pours a flood of praise, and those who treat him with disrespect he transfixes with winged shafts of sarcasm. In general he is content with the treatment he receives, but ho complains that certain persons appear to regard him as " some curious animal of an unknown species," and that the directors " allow men to wipe their shoes upon him." It is probable that he is speaking figuratively in this pas sage, as well as in another in which he laments the hard fate of "a poor poet who has to sell his own books, and to be spit upon by any rich fool ;" but it is evident that his merits are not always acknowledged, and that at times he meets with unexpected rebuffs. On one occasion, for instance, he encountered " a gentleman with a slight air of something dis tinguished," but who was "too proud to speak," for he shook his head when the poet " presented No. 11. of Tales and Legends to his notice, as Poet Close's last work, sir.'" Well might Mr Close, on hearing that ho had been addressing the great Sir Roderick Murchison," exclaim "Well, sir, you may call him great, but he is a proud little man, let his genius be what it may. Catch me touching my hat to him again. . . So much for this Roderick Murchison who took up Du Chaillu . . . this Roderick supported him, but could not open his mouth to a man who would scorn to shako hands with such an adventurer." Much plea santer was the poet's interview with " Earl Fitzwilliam, a fine, tall, placid, mild looking gentleman, in a light dress, and yellow sort of hat, with no pomp or pride about him, who gently put a present in our hand.' , The Marnuis of Hastings " a little, merry, good•looking man,with red hair, and with a gold chain across his vest," would have taken a bock, but a friend who was with him " prevented his Lordship, who had a fancy foe it. The Bishop of Carlisle, of whom Mr Close says, " We are afraid lest the good Bishop be expelled the Bishopric, and lose his mitre for being too pious," has always behaved with great civility ; but of the Bishop of Durham we read the following stet y -.—" August 1. Met a family in a first-class carriage who were very proud. The gentleman, to all we said, gave a gruff peremptory No. No b Joke. no bills, would he look at; and with al proud a curl of our lips, and not too well pleased shake of the head, replied Very weil, sir.' and shut tire door. Now this mild gentleman was the Bishop of Durham, as we learnt soon after—and not like the great Apostle Paul, full of charity, as a minister of the Gospel ought to be." Sometimes Mr Close does not postpone the punishment of the audacious travellers who decline to purcheso his wares, but calls them to a sense of duty upon the spot. In one flagrant case, for instance, in which a lady would have taken a copy of the Tales had not "her husband screwed his mouth, and made eo many proud grimaces" that she had not the courage to complete the purchase, the poet's blood boiled, and he cried—" Never mind, sir ; you shall not have a book o f mine at any price; but when a poet of Westmoreland has the misfortune to bow low again to you, you will show him a little more courtesy, which becomes one men to another. God help us, poor worms of earth—how we can sneer at each other 1" It may be well conceived that the proud pas • Finger to whom these noble words were addressed was seen, as the train moved away, lost in "a state of speechless amers,ment." A similar lesson might well have been read to " a weak youth who fancied himself a gentleman," who had the audacity to pitch the poet's handbills out of the carriage window, and even to make use - of disparaging lan guage with reference to the books mentioned on them. But we are told that " on being informed that at home he wes called " Silly Simon," and beneath our notice, we made the soft youth a low bow, but live that when his fond mamma hears of the freaks of this her' pet lamb,' she will teach him better manners," The ladies of Kirby-Stephen almost invariably smile upon Mr Close, and it is seldom that he has to make such an entry as this :--" Met Lady Howard, at least the Hon. Airs Howard, of Levens Hall, near Milnthorpe, but her ladyship was in a bad humour, nor would look at our bills or books; and the tall footman, who seemed too great a gentleman for us to approach, he could not scarce speak to us." Unpardonable as such conduct might well be deemed, it elicited nothing more from the ill-used poet than a shrug of his shoulders ; but the indecent familiarity of another lady, who addressed him as "Johnny," and wanted to know what he had got under his arm, drew down upon her a well-merited re proof. The idea, as he says, of such a liberty being taken by "a lady whom he had known in the days of her poverty; a lady who had stood at her washing-tub like a certain poet's little wife—and, we say, a 1a , 3 y not half so qualified to be a lady as the said little wife I" It is sad to think that such people exist, and still more melancholy is the fact that their occasional rudeness is likely to drive Mr Close from his secluded station, and compel him to take to writing " for the London Press." Perhaps, however, it is as well that the picture he draws of his daily life on the platform is not too enticing. Had it been brighter, other great men might have been induced to follow his ex ample, aed the neighbourhood of a literary celebrity might have become a bugbear to travellers. Imagine the feelings of a visit to Albury on being peremptorily requested to pur chase "Mr Tupper's last poem, sir," with the alternative of being annihilated by a stream of poetic lava on the occa sion of the author's next eruption I But if our poet is some. times exposed to annoyance in his native place, he obtains ample amends from distant and foreign admirers. Having sent a copy of his works to the Prince of Wales, he is proud to say that he received an answer without delay, to the effect that his royal highness was much obliged to Mr Close, but was compelled to decline accepting his present. Almost us gratifying as this "royal letter of thanks" was that in which the Secretary of the Emperor of the French actually conde scended to state that his Imperial Majesty was too busy to be able to look into the book xhich Mr Close had sent him. After receiving so glowing a testimonial from the Tuileries it is not wonderful that the poet expects "that our Most Gracious Queen will use her royal prerogative and whisper in the Minister's ear, ' Let the Poet Close have justice. Give him hie pension, else France will cry, Shame on Victoria I Shame on the Prince of Wales I and Shame on the Prime Minister!'" Such an interference on the part of h oyalty would have taken place long ago, he thinks, had it not been for "Privy Purse Phipps or Pipps," whom he styles "a veritable carpet knight, a lieutenant who has titles, and never fought a battle except with a fat turkey," and who '• refused to allow the Queen to see the last Christ mas book, with the grand poem-1n memoriam of the late Consort." Ile hopes to meet him some day face to face, and to tell him "a piece of his mind;" and he also looks forward to an interview, but of a pleasanter nature, with Lord Palmerston, to whom, in the interval, he regu arty sends his successive works and his por trait, to remind him that he is "still alive and pulling at his coat tail." It is gratifying to see that his spirits are not permanently affected by the troubles through which he has gone. At times, it is true, he becomes de jected, and fears that as The Princes all of Scotland, they Left Robert Burns to die ; So Poet Close need not expect A higher destiny. But he soon recovers from his unwonted fit of depression. The wondrous struggles of Jean Paul, he says, have often cheered him up. " For his fate was like our own ; he lived among people who called him a fool, among a set of barbarians who could not understand his book ; but when once he got 20 miles from home he was astonished to find himself a famous man, a great man I And at last his time did come, and we wait for ours." For a long time, he says, Tench spoke ill of him, but at length that old gen tleman and " father of all the critics" relented, and wished him success. Other and weaker antagonists he intends to crush, remarking that "it is too late in the day for mush room gentry to joke with us; they had better play with a Bengal tiger." A certain , vioar, it appears, once said of him in scorn, " Poor John, ho can do no harm. His writings are harmless." " But of this error, our author indignantly exclaims, "our readers will judge." And undoubtedly, if conceit, vulgarity, servility, and insolence can supply writings with the power of doing harm, Mr Close hes every reason for impugning the vicar's judgment. Far from being harmless, they may fairly claim a more than ordinary share of noxious qualities, and, if he cultivates their demerits with assiduity, he may justly look forward to their taking a prominent place among nui sances. THE "EXAMINER" ON LORD PALMERSTON ON IN SULAR POSITION.—WO aro indebeted to Lord Palmerston for the unexpected discovery of the dangers of an insulated position. A frontier of sea used to be considered an ob stacle to attack, but Lord Palmerston has found out that it offers facilities, and that, of all European countries, Eng land is the most exposed to the danger of invasion. At the meeting of the Wilts Volunteers, Lord Palmerston, in a few words, corrected all the false notions that have hitherto pre vailed as to the safety of insularity—" 'We differ in many things from the great Powers of the Continent. We live on an island accessible b any invadcr who might chance to land on our shores at almost every point of our largo maritime circum'erence. 'We, therefore, cannot pretend to defend ourselves as continental States may do, which, being accessible in only one avenue of attack, by one valley or by one pass, may successfully fortify their vulnerable points, and by stationing there a military force may think themselves secure from invasion until they can collect a largo army to resist the invading enemy." It follows from this that if England had been joined to France, instead of separated by the Channel, she would have been all the safer. In that case there would have been a frontier of hill and dale, upon which fortresses would have been placed to de fend approaches, just as we see them between France and Belgium, and France and Germany, where the invader cannot drop in without straying off the guarded roads. The invader is not a foreign gentleman with a carpet-bag, who can traverse open fields, and make his way across country. The invader is a very big enemy, with propor tionate artillery. ammunition, baggage, and horses to drag them, for which purpose roads are as necessary here as on the Continent, and very awkwardly planted would the invader of our country be if he chanced to land on our shores where there were not great roads to the interior which would bear the passage of the material of an army. A common country road would soon be cut up and de stroyed by the guns and waggons required for a division of 30,000 mon. But that is difficulty No. 2. Difficulty No. lis disembarkation. It is supposed that a landing is an easy matter as it is seen to bo performed on beaches like Brighton, Deal, Hastings, where people have only to jump out of the boats and take care not to get wet. But it is rather a diffirent affair where the impedimenta of war aro concerned, heavy guns, munitions, and horses to be got safely to land in a very limited tide-time, and in weather never long calm, We say nothing of opposition, we do not imagine gunboats dashing amongst the boats employed in the laiLing, running down some and shooting down others—what we are now consider ing aro the difficulties of even the unopposed disembarka tion of a large army with its material. There are long ranges of rocky coast, like Purbeck in Darsetskire, upon which a punt can hardly bo shoved ashore except in calm weather, and where there is a practicable beach it is generally over hung by cliff, the ways up which, not fitted for artillery bag gage waggons, &c. If Lord Palmerston were to ship himself to try the experiment, with nothing to carry but an umbrella, and taking the chances of weather, he would find that the shores of England are not as "accessible at almost every point" as he supposes. Let him try it at Portland Bill, or in his neighbourhood, in Christchurch bay, or St Albans. What we maintain is, that the invader of this country would find the same difficulties ho has to encounter on the Continent, and something more. We have no for tresses in the interior, but did the nontinental fortresses ever stop the marches of Napoleon ? He left thorn behind. Ho always found open country enough for the passage of his troops, and seldom troubled himself with sieges. There is not a country in the world so well fitted for defence as England, intersected as it is with hedge-rows, and with earthworks half ready made. And supposing an enemy to have got over the great difficulty cf landing, he would find before him impedimenta to his march hardly less surmountable than those of mountain passes, though not so apparent. And why do wo not see ourselves as others see us ; or is it the opinion on the Continent that " we live in an island accessible to any invader who may chance to land on our shores ?" What was the argument of the French Government when its co-operation for the pro tection of Denmark was wanted ? " You," said Napoleon "may propose this safely, because you are secure against attack in your insular position, and can wage a maritime war ; but France is open on the side of Germany, and would have to bear all the stress and weight of the war." But to bring the question to a short test, is Lord Palmerston of opinion that England would be in a position of greater security if no seas separated her from the Conti nent ? Should we be safer if we lay alongside France, with only a line of fortresses to guard the frontier approaches? C°1114., HER MAJESTY. • BALMORAL, Sept. 2 3 . The Queer, accompanied by Princess Ileletnh Prince Alfred, and Prince Elimar of Olde nburg ; and attended by the Hon. Harriet Phipps , well yesterday to Alt-na-Guithasach and the Lynn °! Mulch. Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Pr ince Leopold went to the Lynn of Quoich yesterday. s t n.:. 24. The Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold, 0115 attended by the Hon. Mrs Bruce, drove out ye s4r ' day morning. Htr Mjeity in the afternoon, with Prio ce l Helena and Prince Elimar of Oldenburg! 8 1, attended by the Hon. Emma Lascelles, drove i" Invercaull, returning by Aberarder. Mr Morier arrived at the Castle yesterday. Journey of the Prince and Princess of Wales. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 24, 9 PO' Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Pri cce of Wales left for Stockholm in the royal yacht Osborne at 3.3o,Ahis afternoon. They are expec ted to return in eight days. et The Danish royal family and Sir Augustus Peg °t accompanied the distinguished guests on bo ar "' Salutes were fired from the batteries of the forts , The ships in the harbour as well as the public and private buildings, were decorated with flag s ' , Their royal highnesses were loudly cheered the spectators. Prince Humbert of Italy. His Royal Highness Prince Humbert of WM: accompanied by his Excellency the 111arclt i , d'Azeglio, and attended by General Revel and P' other members of his suite, paid a visit to tb A e" Crystal Palace on Siturday. The royal visitor so d' attendants passed several hours there, and apPea re 4 delighted with what they saw. Yesterday ta° r/1 0 ing, shortly after nine o'clock, the prince an d i large party, including the Italian Minister and t PI personnel of the Legation, General Revel, and tbo noblemen and gentlemen in the prince's suite) at tended Divine service at the Catholic Church h„ i Farmuatreet, Berkeley-square. After breakfil:o Prince Humbert went to inspect the allee l3 stables at the Royal-mews, Pimlico. His ro y al highness went over every department of that bone" of the royal household. On leaving thepalace stables the prince and P 54 walked to the Hungerford Pier, and there ava iled themselves of the ordinary public boat for Grace with. The illustrious party seamed to enjoy t ." 11 trip down the river. On their arrival at GreenW l % Prince Humbert and friends proceeded at once visit the chapel and other parts of the hosplt a ; After a thorough inspection of the institution th prince and company adjourned to the Trafalg ar Hotel to dine. His royal highn ess and suite r 8 turned home at a quitter past nine in the eTgo i ": His royal highness will leave town at eigh" o'clock this morning to visit the camp at Aldersh ot ' where there will be a field day. We have reason to believe that his royal high 4 ness does not intend to prolong his sojourn 11 / 6 London beyond Thursday next. On quitting ti l t Legation his royal highness will go by Wai 3 Dover to Ostend, whence he proceeds to Bru ns e' o ' to pay a visit to the King of the Belgians. --0 - - - --. f• o Departure of the Grand Duchess Marie Russia, Yesterday morning her Imperial Highness t he Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, sister of the peror, accompanied by her husband the Cuoh a Stroganoff, their family, the Countess Tolstoy , a numerous suite, left Ctaridge's Hotel, Broo street, for the Charing-cross station of the So util : Eastern Railway, proceeding from thence to Do le " by the 7.30 continental mail train for Paris, having. arrived in town at Ciaridge's from Torquay l a " Thursday. Her Imperial Highness was attended at t he Charing cross station, until the departure o f tpe train, by his Excellency Baron Brunnow, the Bus' tdan Ambassador ; M. Sonbaroff, the First Seers' Lary of the Embassy; also by the Duke of L enoll4 tenberg, the eldest son of the Grand Duchess, 8 4° ', Upon the arrival of the train on the Adm ix ' s % Pier, Dover, at 9.35 a.m., her Imperial Hig hness and suite embarked immediately for Calais in 0130 of the mail steamers, the weather being beautifoill fine for the passage. Mr. S. M. Latham, the Bi lsi sian Consul at Dover, was in attendance on the arrival of the train, and, with Mr. Way, Of the South-Eastern Company, escorted the Gr al3 ,, Duchess and suite the short distance from the trill" to the steamer alongside the pier. Her Imperial Highness travelled from Charing' cross to Dover in one of the South-Eastern Railw ay Company's saloon carriages. In attendance at the Charing-cross station to ra t a ceive the distinguished party were Mr. J. P. lin i g l3 4 ' the superintendent of the South-Eastern line, an Mr. Cockburn, of the Charing-cross station. Mr. Claridge was also present at the departura° of the train, and was thanked for the attention an comfort received at his hotel by this distinguis h % Russian family during their occasional sojourn London this summer. His Imperial Highness the Doke of Leuchtenb er; and General Rehbinder have left Claridge's Hotel for $ 6 Leonards. Their Highnesses the Maharajah and Motive° Dhuleep Singh have left Claridge's Hotel for Elden 1161' Th e Dake of Hamilton arrived at Harailt ° , ll 1 House, Arlivgton - streer, on Saturday, from Easton I' Suffolk. The Earl and Countess Spencer contemplate, 3 is said, a tour oa the Continent during the f o rthcoro i l winter, after their return home from accompanying ilie t l o R. yal Highnessca the Prince and Princess of Wale s Den-nark and Sweden. The Earl and Countess of Desart have arrifea at the Alexandra Hotel from Desert House, Kilkenny (.10 The Earl Russell left Balmoral, where the nou „ lord has been, as one of the Secretaries of State, in atten'' Enloe , on her Majesty, on Saturday, for Aberdeen, a nd Pr°, ; ceeded yesterday to North Berwick, near Edinburgh, " join the Countess Russell and daughters. The Countess Apponyi left Chandoe House Y et. terday for Baden Baden. Lord Hatherton and the Hon. Mr. Littietonh 3le left Brown's Hotel. Lord and Lady Clif f ord have left Brown's J:rott Lady Frankland and suite have arrived at t - Portland Hotel, Southsea. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the O l t; chequer will arrive at Balmoral to-day from Flintshire• t t the purpose of succeeding Earl Russell in attendance) as memb2r of the Cabinet, on the Queen. The Right Hon. Charles P. Villiers, MY' o a leaving Scarborough and Filey, proceeded to Gibside, vn visit to the Right Hon. Wm. Hutt, M.T'., and Mrs HERR EreNuT is at present in Paris, we trust 1 " th greatly improved health. tt ls ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL " SHOW.”—MOSt of main pillars of the Cathedral are deformed W, l he panted announcements in English and French f or o ll l' benefit of foreigners, of the tariff of admission. A ' tr f c under tho canopy is permitted gratis, but you must p a d visiting the Whspering Gal:ery Gd ; the Geometricalsl'l ' 1 case and Library, 6J ; the Golden Gallery, Gd; th e 1 13 ' ; is Gd (almost a prohibitory price) ; the crypt, with e " Wellington and Nelson sarcophagi, Gd; the excv‘te b„! that attendants arc needed in all these places. If the.ve4; and Chapter imagine they can complete the repairs ari d - 00 . corations of their church any sooner for tho sispe", e t I 't the gallery, staircase, and hill, shabby as the tax fey )r pass ; but that the tombs of our greatebt naval and ra flP 6 I. ( t heroes are never to be seen by their countrymen, but Btiter ahead is a public disgrace. i?or a considerable time the completion of the Wellington sarcophagus, adtai''siuber was granted twice a week without any charge ; on the ot four days Gd was exacted. Even this might have been iter dured, but now to close the crypt entirely, except °P ment, in addition to its being a breach of good .„ t e unworthily excludes the poorer visitors, and must c re- 0 0. feeling of surprise or contempt in the minds of foreignlot The plea that attendants are essential is absurd. NS',„ t security can they guarantee ? and what is there to Or even if u man or Lwu were necessto y for appearance 0 : o p m the expse would not involve a nationa l bankflaell though the,Chapter were excused from the c h a rge. l ulo g trumpery demands result in making the na tion ril.° Over the whole outlaw:it,— city - 1 ) C"'